Psychology at Mount Holyoke College

If you plan to study psychology, take a look at what Mount Holyoke College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Mt. Holyoke is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts and approximately 2,040 students attend the school each year. Of the 628 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 2021, 61 of them were psychology majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

Mt. Holyoke Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Mt. Holyoke Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Mt. Holyoke compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Mt. Holyoke is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Psychology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	207
Most Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	515
Most Popular Psychology Schools	745

Psychology Student Demographics at Mt. Holyoke

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Mount Holyoke College.

Mt. Holyoke Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 61 psychology majors earned their bachelor's degree from Mt. Holyoke. Of these graduates, 0% were men and 100% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	27
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Mt. Holyoke also has a doctoral program available in psychology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Psychology

The following psychology concentations are available at Mount Holyoke College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Mount Holyoke College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Child Development & Psychology	61

Related Majors

• History
• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• Education
• Social Sciences

Careers That Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in psychology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Mount Holyoke College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,050	$86,490
Psychology Professors	1,490	$97,690
Psychologists	980	$83,550
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	100	$75,660

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.